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Enterprise Section

VAN Service


  1. VAN service usage
    The ratio of enterprises using VAN services was 41.3% for enterprises with 300 or more employees, a 2.0 percentage-point reduction since the previous survey.
    Tabulated by industry we see that in Wholesale and Retail Trade, Eating and Drinking Places (36.7%) and Finance and Insurance (29.1%) the usage rate is high.
    Tabulated by number of employees, we see that the larger the enterprise the higher the usage rate. In enterprises with 2,000 or more employees the usage rate was 61.3%. Additionally, the usage rate for newly surveyed enterprises with 100 to 299 employees was 16.7%.
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  2. Purpose of VAN usage
    The purpose with the highest ratio among VAN users was "order placement system" (49.1%), followed by "EDI" (36.1%), and "access external database" (21.6%).
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